--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is only a very partial list of what he's been able to > accomplish. There is so much more, that it would really > be too much to list. You can check it out on Wikipedia. >
Thank you for that, Salvatore, you make my point for me by listing his accomplishments. First, let's eliminate all the stuff about getting elected and academics because that has very little bearing on accomplishments and what the guy can do in the real world of real politik. We are then left with the following: > > Community organizer--Director of Developing Communities Project > "During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 > to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with > accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a > college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights > organization" What a stereotypical politician! He increased spending from $70,000 to $400,000. And, pray tell, how did the enormous accomplishments of the Job training program (ooh, no one's ever done THAT before!), a college preparatory tutoring program (every high school in the country' already had one...so this one must have been REALLY special!), and a tenant's rights organisation (something tells me that Chicago already had tenants' rights organisation even before Obama was born...what was so special about this one?) prepare him for being president? Can you say: suck the teat of government and create jobs for your friends? And, by the way, as far as "community organisers" go, this would be considered a poor to fair report card. For future reference, Sal, here's the standard for "community organisers" that you should use to determine accomplishments: Mother Theresa. Mother Theresa was a community organiser. She probably accomplished in one day in community organising activities what B. Hussein did during his --what, 20 years? -- of community organising. And, by the way, on Sundays when Mother Theresa went to Church, did she sit at the feet of some racist demagogue? > > > Civil Rights attorney And what great cases did he take as a civil rights attorney? > "Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a > voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that > achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered > African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to > name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be." Voter registration drives have been going on across the country for decades. They are nothing new. That he got appointed to such a position is indicative of his ability to get appointed by his political friends more than anything. You're really stretching, Sal, if this is what you have to come up with. > > "During his 2004 general election campaign for U.S. Senate, police > representatives credited Obama for his active engagement with police > organizations in enacting death penalty reforms.[34] Obama resigned > from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 following his election to > the US Senate." That's it? That's his big accomplishment??? That's really Earth-shattering! Better go back to Wikipedia, Sal, and dig up some of those incredible other accomplishments you say you weren't able to list because they were too numerous. And once you list them, we can go over THOSE "accomplishments. But since "accomplishments" is apparently such a big factor for you in whom to vote for president, why not list those of Ralph Nader who is also running for president and see how he stacks up against Obama?
